Wednesday, 17 December 2014

For Israel, it’s time for a Churchill, not another Chamberlain.

Externally, Israel has been experiencing its Czech moment in
history.

The supporters and appeasers to
the violent avaricious demands of a Palestinian anti-Semitism are closing in on
a tiny nation just as they did in the 30s to Czechoslovakia to assuage a
demanding German anti-Semitism.

They insist that the Palestinians
be given their ‘Sudetenland’ and chunks of land they claim to be their
Czechoslovakia thrown in for good measure.

They are deaf to all Czech (read ‘Israel’)
appeals. They really believe that only by this sacrifice can world peace be
achieved. But, of course, we know it won’t
because now, as then, this is not what this is about. There’s more. There is
always more, even if, especially when, the democratic world turn a blind eye
and a deaf ear to it.

The explanation of what is to
come, the manifesto of Palestinian Arab intent, is laid out for all to see in
the separate charters of both Hamas and the PLO, two bodies representing the
spearhead of the Islamic and Arab movement. The anti-Semitism of these charters
is as eerily foreboding as was ‘Mein Kampf’ of the Nazi era which the
democratic world also ignored.

Instead, today as then, they
choose to cast this Masterplan aside in favor of adopting Labourite democratic
misguided politics to feed the tiger using Israel in place of Czechoslovakia as
their chicken.

Sadly, we have seen subsequent
Israeli Prime Ministers – Rabin, Peres, Barak, Olmert, and even Netanyahu –
play the feckless and ineffective role of Czech Prime Minister Benes, failing
to turn the tide of a rolling European and American pact to throw Israel under
the Palestinian bus.

Netanyahu, who single-handedly
drew world attention on to a nuclear Iran, did little to offset the march of
Palestinian appeasement even as they boasted of a world without Israel and used
unending violence and terror to promote their agenda. He failed to demand of Western democracies
that they assert their considerable authority in challenging Palestinian
leadership and society to reform just as they did, under Kennedy and Reagan,
with Soviet Communism.

It took force to defeat the Nazis
because the Western democratic world fed the anti-Semitic Nazis. Creating yet
another Jew-hating state that rejects the identity of its neighbor and talks
about liberating it cannot, must not, be given parliamentary support anywhere.

The moral of history, and it
really is a moral one, is that Western democracies are beholden to enforce
reform on violent regimes and not accept them for what they are. This was
successfully applied with political and economic pressure against Communism,
both Soviet and Cuban. It was enforced militarily against Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy. It must be applied against radical Islam in all its forms,
particularly by reforming the anti-Semitic brand of Palestinian rejectionism.

This is the affirmative message
that Israel must broadcast to a blind-deaf world.

Does Israel need domestic
economic reforms? Absolutely.
Externally, it is Fortress Israel time, and for that we need a resolute leader
to rise to the challenge of waking up a 30s era Western world to the reality of
the Middle East, particularly educating them to the political reality of what a
Palestinian state would bring.

This is why Israel needs to find
a Churchill and not elect another Chamberlain into power.

Barry Shaw is the author of ‘Israel
Reclaiming the Narrative.’ www.israelnarrative.com He is also a member of the Knesset Forum on
Israel’s Legitimacy.